The Return of the Soldier
- ISBN-10
- 014118065X
- ISBN-13
- 9780141180656
- Series
- The Return of the Soldier
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 112
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998-06-01
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Rebecca West
Description
Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and a soldier suffering from shell-shock. This novel of an enclosed world invaded by public events also embodies in its characters the shifts in England's class structures at the beginning of the twentieth century. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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